Category: Reviews

The cover of The Crystal Shard. Three figures pose dramatically on the tundra. One is a young barbarian man wearing furs and wielding a hammer. Another is a dark elf, crouching to inspect a line of blood in the snow. The third is a long-bearded, armoured dwarf with an axe. All of them are looking off into the distance at something behind the viewer.

The Crystal Shard

February 17, 2018 By Candlekeep Janitor

“Drizzt became an archetype that’s been parodied, deconstructed, and reconstructed so many times that now it’s like an overchewed piece of bubble gum, flavourless and tacky.”

The cover of Darkwalker on Moonshae. On a muddy field, a gaunt, monstrous humanoid is riding a black horse next to a blonde elven woman riding a white horse. The monstrous rider is grabbing the elf woman's hair with one hand and brandishing a bloody axe at her with the other. In the background is another white-horsed elf and another black-horsed monster. A castle looms through some mist in the background.

Darkwalker on Moonshae

February 15, 2018 By Candlekeep Janitor

“Competent, not terrible, but not doing anything that would distinguish it from any of the other million fantasy novels out there where a whitebread prince gets a girl, finds a magic sword, and defeats a great evil according to a prophecy. In short, it feels like paint-by-numbers fantasy.”